Sentence examples for to backstroke from inspiring English sources

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to backstroke

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A swimming stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.

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Swimmers switching from butterfly to backstroke must touch both hands to the wall simultaneously and exactly parallel before turning onto their backs and pushing off with both feet.

Remember to backstroke to blend in your starting and stopping points on the baseboard.

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To film the water sequences of "The Deep" he sometimes had to quickly backstroke to keep his cast in the frame.

"I'll be right here," I say, as I backstroke to a nearby buoy.

"I am not really used to doing backstroke but I seem to be going okay at so I will see how it goes this season".

After losing her ability to kick, Yip switched from the front crawl to the backstroke and was reclassified from the S5 to the S3 category (lower numbers indicate more severe disabilities).

The soap opera shifted to China, where Manaudou finished eighth in the 400 freestyle and seventh in the 100 backstroke, failed to make the 200 backstroke final and fled in tears.

She finished last in the 400 free final, seventh in the 100 backstroke final and could not manage to make the 200 backstroke final.

But to listen in Roanoke last weekend was to hear him backstroking in the regional accent pool.

The Lenny Krayzelburg-Aaron Peirsol backstroke matchup continued to go Peirsol's way.

She has since switched to the backstroke and distance events where she is ranked in the top 10 in several events in the 50 to 54 age group.

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